The Misty Isle · #2
The Dead Man of Storr
Your past will find you... and it will kill you...When the owner of a Portree gallery is found dead, lying in the snow at the foot of the Storr, D.I. Duncan McAdam and his small team must piece together what took him there... and who had a reason to kill him.
A man with a flirtatious eye and no lack of ambition, there is no shortage of people who would turn a blind eye if something happened to him... and many who would willingly kill him themselves.
As Duncan reveals the long-held secrets of the man's life, he finds the ghosts of his own past coming back to haunt him. The course of the investigation will not only bring others into danger, but Duncan himself will have to face his own past... whether he likes it or not...
The Dead Man of Storr is the second book in a new series of mysteries set on Scotland's atmospheric Isle of Skye, the Misty Isle, by the Amazon #1 multi-million selling British crime writer, J M Dalgliesh, the author of the Hidden Norfolk and Dark Yorkshire books.
The series
Tucked between brooding skies and rugged coastline, The Misty Isle series whispers its secrets through wind-scoured cliffs and the echo of waves crashing on ancient rock. This is not the Scotland of postcards—it’s the darker, quieter version, where every stone seems to remember and every silence carries weight. In this shadowy corner of the world, D.I. Duncan McAdam returns to Skye, not just to solve crimes, but to face the ghosts that never quite left him.
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Each installment unfolds like the mist itself—slowly, deliberately—revealing the island’s tangled loyalties, long-buried guilt, and the fragile thread that holds a fractured community together. McAdam, a man shaped as much by personal tragedy as professional resolve, navigates murder investigations that feel less like puzzles and more like excavations. These aren’t just crimes—they're ruptures in the surface of a place already worn thin by time.
Fans of slow-burn detective fiction with a psychological edge will find themselves pulled into a setting as compelling as the mysteries at its heart. There’s a gothic stillness to the storytelling, a sense that the island itself is watching, waiting, remembering. With taut prose and an immersive atmosphere, the series blends crime, isolation, and character-driven drama in a way that lingers long after the final page.
The Misty Isle doesn’t shout to get your attention—it draws you in, quiet as fog, and just as hard to shake.
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